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Now that our luggage has caught up with us from Dubai, it's time for the serious touring to begin. We've enjoyed some fabulous hospitality over the last few days in Glasgow, starting with the 60th dinner at theTorrance on an awesome sunny evening with Margaret McLean, Ronnie and Cindy, Sam, Bobbie, Lizzie, Aliy, Sean, Dougie, Margaret and Colin …

... dont forget your gloves. The skiing was great fun, and even though my skis were sticky Jim tried hard to keep up but failed. Fiona got faster and faster, and was breathing down Jim's neck by the time we stopped. Its really cool as the even have a slope bar, if you fancy a quick break. After we'd been skiing for long enough it was time for some food. Now luckily there is a chinese buffet at the venue, ...

... it was a Scottish beach. Also on the way back to Glasgow there is a wind farm. Whitelee Wind Farm is the largest on-shore wind farm in the UK with 215 Siemens and Alstom wind turbines and a total capacity of 539 megawatts. Unfortunately it was another cloudy day so the pics are a little dull and they are so spread out it's too hard to fit all the wind turbines in. Saturday night was a night out ...

... was just what they needed. That night I spent a glorious hour in the hot tub, then went to the Oak Tree Inn across the street to have dinner and sat with Sarah and Nate (the Irish couple). It was very pleasant to have company for dinner. In the morning we were joined by a group of three backpackers who were out in the rain the day before and planned to camp, but were happy to run across Liz's B&B. I showed them pictures of the trail ahead. They were German and told me ...

... have two boys called Connor (9) and Blair (7) and Mark has two girls called Megan (17) and Holly (15). We met them all at a pub which was central to everyone and had a few drinks and nibbles. I felt a bit like a celebrity, with all the questions from the little boys about Australia. Blair had brought a gift for Matt; a Ranger's shirt with Blair's name on it. For those that don't know, the Rangers are Celtic's arch ...